i'm inferring that rows 1, 3 and 5 are the wrong side, and rows 2, 4 and 6 are the right side, because even tho it's never explicitly stated as such, in the grid picture she has an icon for a long set of slipped stitches and in the key it says WS, ergo row 3 is the wrong side, so the other odds must be wrong sides too, and the evens must be right sides? also, why it starts with a wrong side, i don't know...

now, she uses the same icons for 2 different meanings. on a right side, a "|" means one thing, but on a wrong side, it means the opposite. same with "-". on one side it means purl, on the other side it means knit. why not just use the same icon to mean the same thing, i do not know, but hooray for designer's prerogative.

so after deciphering the indiana jones hieroglyphics i think i have this...

When it is a flat piece it is customary to do things this way. The strange part is that she uses non-convention knit stitch symbols. I have seen a lot of patterns that start the 1st Row on the wrong side. Sometimes it is on purpose to because of the kind of cast on you use.

Not only that she starts the pattern on the left side , which again is not conventional. A lot of Barbara Walker's Series Stitch books are like this. I can see your confusion as she does not tell you that the pattern is read from left to right to begin with, nor does it explicitly makes sure you understand that the pattern starts on the wrong side.

andy, thanks for the heads-up on her 'unconventional' method of charting... i'd have said 'deliberately confusing' (no, i'd have actually said 'shit-for-brains'!), but i'm not as nice.

so, if rows 1, 3 and 5 ARE wrong side, and rows 2, 4, and 6 ARE right side, and i start bottom left (instead of usual bottom right), and zig-zag my way to the top (1 is left-right, then 2 is right-left, then 3 is left-right and so on), then my 5th time rewrite should be right.